Social infrastructure at city scale
The New Zealand International Convention Centre occupies half a city block in central Auckland, bounded by Hobson, Nelson and Wellesley Streets. Commissioned by SkyCity and designed by Warren and Mahoney with Moller Architects and Woods Bagot, the $750 million centre is uniquely stacked vertically — a 2,850-seat theatre suspended above more than 8,000 square metres of flexible exhibition space, threaded together by a multi-level atrium and a new public laneway. That atrium is where Nu Wall does its work. The Barcode 200 profile in Dulux Duratec Electro Tiberius lines the towering interior walls, wrapping the public circulation in a warm, finely textured bronze surface. Named Te Tumu by Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, the building was conceived as social infrastructure, and its interior finishes were selected to support that public purpose through decades of constant use.
